That is exactly how I felt a few weekends ago. I needed chocolate, rich dark chocolate, and lots of it. I scoured the cabinets to see what sort of chocolate concoction I could come up with. While I blankly stared into my cabinets I saw a bag of Glutino Pretzels. Bingo!

What should I do with it? Chocolate covered pretzels? No that is too simple, I NEEDED chocolate. Some sort of chocolate pretzel cookie? Could that work? I wasn’t sure, but I was totally willing to experiment and find out! I grabbed the essentials, butter, sugar, Glutino All Purpose Flour, vanilla, some pudding mix to ensure they were perfectly moist and got to work! The result is a salty-sweet-chocolatey bit of Heaven!

To make these cookies extra rich because I brown the butter before I add it to the cookie batter. Yes, that is right. Delicious, creamy browned butter right in the cookies. In addition to the brown butter we add a combination of brown sugar, white sugar and vanilla pudding mix. And just in case all of that isn’t enough we add dark chocolate chunks, salty pretzel pieces and chocolate covered pretzels.

Are you swooning yet? The result of combining so many outrageously delicious ingredients are the most perfect soft and chewy gluten free cookies packed with sweet rich chocolate and salty pretzel bits!

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Heat a small sauce pan to medium and slowly melt the butter, stirring occasionally. Allow the butter to brown (reduce the heat to medium low if needed) remove butter from heat and allow to cool slightly.

In a stand mixer combine the baking powder, salt, flour, sugars, and pudding mix until combined.

Add in the cooled brown butter, eggs, yolk and vanilla and mix on low until a very thick batter forms.

Add in crushed pretzels and dark chocolate chunks and mix until well combined.